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Israel’s war with Iran is only getting started
With the launch of Operation ‘Rising Lion’, Israel appears to have sought to take advantage of a narrow window of…
The Welfare Bill is too little, too late
How much of the government’s Welfare Reform Bill will survive the mauling of backbench Labour MPs? If this bill even…
Reeves needs to tell the public that they’re wrong
Writing about Britain’s spending plans has started to feel a bit like swimming through treacle. It’s not that there aren’t…
Israel’s Iran attack has done the West a favour
Israel’s overnight strikes on the Islamic Republic of Iran represent the initial salvo of what Jerusalem is calling Operation Rising…
Israel’s attack on Iran marks the beginning of a new era for the Middle East
On 5 June 1967, Israel destroyed three Arab air forces with a devastating pre-emptive strike at the start of what…
Israel’s shadow war on Iran has burst into the open
Woken by sirens outside my window in Israel at 3 a.m. I made my way to the bomb shelter in…
Trial by victimhood has taken over Britain’s courts
We live in a country in which petty grievances and perceived slights abound, and one in which resentments and gripes…
Tackling child poverty may prove a vote winner for Farage
In news bound to make Keir Starmer nervous, voters in 121 Labour-held constituencies with high rates of child poverty are…
How will Iran respond to the Israeli airstrikes?
President Donald Trump was off the mark when he was asked about the likelihood of an Israeli military strike on…
Life is too precious for assisted dying
Assisted dying has attracted for me, and no doubt many other MPs, far more mail than any other issue. The weight of…
What is the point of the RSPCA?
The secretly-filmed footage is a horror show. Hens are desperately trying to escape as they suffocate in a gas chamber.…
The sad decline of reading
At secondary school open days, English teachers are always asked the same questions by anxious parents of year six students:…
Hogg out: youngest DNC vice chair ousted
Congratulations David Hogg: the youngest ever DNC vice chair has earned the honor of serving the shortest term in the…
Economist accuses Reeves of ‘making up numbers’ in spending review
While certain government departments celebrated Rachel Reeves’s spending review – Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner even threw a party the…
Trump’s birthday surprise – war with Iran?
The Trump presidency is giving us all a type of news-related diabetes. So much sensational information is spewing out of…
The un-American revolution
The riots raging in Los Angeles are an unwelcome present ahead of America’s birthday, which is less than a month…
Westminster must fall
Dominic Cummings delivered a Pharos Lecture in Oxford this week on why western regimes are in crisis. Here is an…
How good was Brian Wilson?
I recently did an online quiz to name the 100 biggest selling pop and rock acts in the USA. The…
Reform gains another councillor in blow for Scottish Tories
Dear oh dear. With just days to go until the Scottish Conservative conference, party leader Russell Findlay will have been…
The tragedy of Brian Wilson’s life
The late Brian Wilson, who has died aged 82, once had his songs, which included modern-day classics such as ‘God…
Is Israel preparing to strike Iran?
While much of the Western debate remains trapped in tired slogans and false moral narratives, events on the ground in…
Britain’s GDP decline is bad news for Rachel Reeves’ spending plans
Rachel Reeves delivered her spending plans for the next three years less than 24 hours ago, but already the credibility…
Why isn’t the BBC telling us what caused the Ballymena riots?
Does anyone know what’s actually happening in Ballymena, in Northern Ireland? If you’ve just been following the news on the…
Could Donald Trump scrap Aukus?
America’s policy undersecretary of defence, Elbridge Colby, is one of the brightest brains in Donald Trump’s administration. Having served in…
Nigel Farage was the spending review’s real winner
When chancellors approach a major moment like a Spending Review, they tend to have a figure in their mind’s eye…
